The Horse Hospital

leisur:hive 13

13 - The Symposium Of Exotic Reason will be presented by leisur:hive on Friday 19th September.

http://www.leisur-hive.co.uk/

Florent Pinzuti

"Le Presbytere"

Installation runs Mon – Fri 18th August – 29th Aug 2003 12pm- 6pm

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit...
the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution."

Igor Stravinsky

The Chamber Of Pop Culture and The Horse Hospital are proud to present "Le Presbytere", an installation by Florent Pinzuti.

Exploring issues of habit, time and space, Pinzuti’s work utilises light, shadow, sand and a miniature model house. In mapping the recurring path of the projected shadow of a man, who appears and re-appears within the house, Pinzuti creates a study of the internal logic of recurring behaviour.

Pinzuti has produced a master work of restraint, invoking the unease of film noir and German expressionism, as influenced by the writing of George Perec, member of the French structuralist movement OULIPO, the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature.

A group of writers and mathematicians formed in 1960, Oulipo’s primary objective was the systematic and formal innovation of constraints in the production and adaptation of literature, defining themselves as rats who themselves build the labyrinth from which they will try to escape.

Following obsessive compulsion as an impulse to freedom, Pinzuti creates a hermetically sealed self-imposed world; the artist and society.

D.I.Y. OR DIE

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH Doors 7.30 pm

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FILMMAKER
D.I.Y. OR DIE
HOW TO SURVIVE AS AN INDEPENDENT ARTIST

A film by MICHAEL W. DEAN
A celebration of the Underdog

FEATURING:
In-Depth Interviews including: Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirlwell (Foetus), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron Asheton (Stooges), Madigan Shive (Bonfire Madigan), Dave Brockie (Gwar) and more.

Director Michael W. Dean has a new book out on no-budget, drive-by filmmaking and promotion called $30 Film School. www.30dollarfilmschool.com

CONTACT
Michael W. Dean
Director
md@kittyfeet.com

Barbaria - An Evening Of Post-Zionist Video

SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST 2003

DOORS 7.30PM

Curated by Tai Shani

UK PREMIERES OF FUCKIN PUNK ROCK ART FILMS FROM TEL AVIV

Within this project, UK based artist Tai Shani gives an alternate voice to young people living or who have lived in Tel Aviv. All the films are personal projects; extremely low budget films made without professional conditions, without the aid of college assistance, and produced and edited upon domestic equipment.

Although the works discuss Israeli culture, and what it is like to be in and from one of the most politicised countries in the world, these discussions are secondary to their discussion of culture, and their attempt to form some kind of cultural identity with the personal as politic.

In Shani’s curation, there comes an elucidation of the nature of what it is to be estranged by culture, and permanently in reaction to and soaking up international culture as a second-hand dialogue; the nature of international culture as an imported commodity within Israel.

Thus these films share a common intensity. As the gap between mainstream culture in Israel and subcultures / underground culture becomes increasingly wide, these young filmmakers create a burning fervour, a brutal negotiation of their own terms; the language of fighting for culture, a commentary within a commentary of fighting for the right to exist.

PROGRAMME

Boysgirls : Noaz Deshe 30 mins 2000

Documentary about the treatment of medical hermaphroditism within mainstream medicine, and the ontological issues involved within hermaphroditism for Judaism.

French Film : Keren Cytter 15 mins 2001

Experimental film exploring the nature of migrancy and the Israeli identity by referencing French culture.

Satan Is My Father : Michael Hanegbi 25 mins 2002

Fictional documentary about a boy who wants to bring Satan to earth because he believes him to be his father.

Family : Keren Cytter 5 mins 2002

Freudian non-diegetic sound film exploring the hatred of the family.

The Radicals : Joshua Simon 23 mins 2001

Fictional punk documentary about a group of young intellectuals living in

Tel-Aviv, featuring prolific real-life Tel Aviv film collective the Baboon Group.

Freeland : Rona Yefman 14 mins 2001

Documentary exploring youth culture in Tel Aviv, especially with regards one brilliant mad fat girl and her night out on the town taking smack.

Interval

Search Agent Zerox : Noaz Deshe 60 mins 2001

Utterly unique fictional documentary originally made for the Tel Aviv science channel. Deshe utilises tropes from directors such as David Cronenberg, Terry Nation and Philip Kaufman to explore the nature of virtual society and its implications for the human race.

By convincing Tel Aviv TV into allowing him to make a programme, Deshe used this license to infiltrate large scale government meetings and interview heads of the Israel police about the future of the virtual world. These become narrative footnotes to footage of a proselytiser of the future post-human race in the shape of interviews with a real-life eccentric called Boris, which are then linked together with a narrative about the director having replicated himself virtually in order to make the programme we are seeing.

Stunning.

DOORS 7.30, tickets £7 / £5 members

THE HORSE HOSPITAL COLONNADE BLOOMSBURY LONDON WC1N 1HX

Russell Square tube

popculture@thehorsehospital.com

www.thehorsehospital.com

For further details, please contact

James B.L. Hollands

( 020 ) 7833 3644.

Step Across The Border

Thursday September 18th Doors 7.30pm

kinoKULTURE in conjunction with Harmonia Mundi UK and Ian Fenton present
STEP ACROSS THE BORDER
A 90 minute celluloid improvisation by Werner Penzel and Nicolas Humbert, featuring music and appearance by Fred Frith.

Step Across the Border

Awards:
European Film Award 1990
Hessischer Filmpreis 1990
Bundesfilmpreis 1991
Nomination Grand Prix International "Images&Documents" Figuera da Foz 1990
Uppsala Filmkaja - Best Documentary Film: Uppsala 1990
Innovative Cinema Prize 1991
Golden Gate Award - Special Jury Award: San Francisco 1991
Qualitätsprämie EDI: Switzerland 1990
Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll
Goldene Filmspule 1991: Kommunales Kino Weingarten
Selected under the 100 most important movies in film-history by the critics of Cahiers du Cinema , Paris 2000

Film Festivals:
Solothurn, Berlin, Strasbourg, Salzburg, München, Sydney, Wien, Warschau, Locarno, Toronto, Figuera da Foz, Uppsala, Montreal, Trient, Viareggio, Florenz, London, New York, Leningrad, Göteborg, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Marseille, Jerusalem, Tampere, Minneapolis, Dublin, Triest, Kopenhagen

Short synopsis
In "Step Across the Border" two forms of artistic expression, improvised music and cinema direct, are interrelated. In both forms it is the moment that counts, the intuitive sense for what is happening in a space. Music and film come into existence out of an intense perception of the moment, not from the transformation of a preordained plan. In improvisation the plan is revealed only at the end. One finds it. The other connection concerns the work method: the film team as band. Much as musicians communicate via the music, our work, too, was realized within a very small and flexible team of equals. What mattered was exchange. And movement. Sometimes we started filming in the middle of the night, responding to a new idea that had arisen only minutes before. We had a fundamental feeling for what we wanted to do, for what kind of film this should be. And we followed that feeling. It was all very instinctive...
Do you know a white rabbit who, playing trumpet, circles the world on his flying carpet? May be you have met him somewhere already, in Zurich, London, Leipzig, Tokyo or New York. That at least was about the route we took and what resulted from it was the black-and-white wink of an eye at the symphonic connection between subways, storms and electric guitars. An American critic wrote: 'Fred Frith's music makes your jaw drop, your feet dance, and your neighbours move.'
Also starring: several telephones, puddles, scarecrows, saxophones, orchestrated cities and motors.
A music film.

Press:
Rock's greatest moment is, well, jazzy
"Step Across the Border" the most important mix of music and film since the early '70s
Before MTV unplugged Nirvana or the stage plugged in Tommy, before MuchMusic, or the rest of rock video, before there was such a thing as the "rockumentary" or the sycophantic concert flick - before all that came to pass, the very idea of rock - of popular music of any kind - coupled with something else, caused a stir. Especially film. Rock and film. It was the mating of two alien life-forms - no, maybe it was more like cats coupling at midnight; a pretty loud, nasty and memorable business for the listeners as well as, one presumes, for the cats themselves. Renaldo & Clara, with and by Bob Dylan, was the last rock flick that mattered, and that was in the early 70s. Until Step Across the Border, that is. And, not to mince words, it's arguably the greatest sustained bit of popular music on film since Shall We Dance, with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1937 - and that includes Gene Kelly's heartbreak final ballet in An American in Paris, Jazz On A Summer's Day or Dylan in Don't Look Back. No question. As Frith connects primal rock with everything from North African Pop to traditional Japanese percussion music to techno art-band stuff from New York in the late '80s when the film was shot, we're given one enormously imaginative extension of the potential of North American pop music. This, he shows, is where the roots-connected pop of the 21st century has to go. Or, with this film, it has already gone...
- Peter Goddard, New York Times

Biography / Filmography:
Werner Penzel was born 1950 and grew up on the country-side in southern Germany. In the late 60s he played music and wrote poetry before turning to moviemaking in the early 70s. He worked with the Brazilian theatre company Oficina, studied at Munich Film School and traveled through South America, North Africa, India and Japan. After Vagabunden Karawane (198O), Adios Al Odio (1986) and other movies he founded Cine Nomad together with Nicolas Humbert in 1987 which resulted among other movies in two works for cinema Step Across The Border (1990) and Middle Of The Moment (1995), as well as the film triptych Three Windows (1999).

Nicolas Humbert, born in 1958. Early writings, pictures and Super-8 films influenced by French Surrealism. Co-founded the 'Groupe Macsom'. 1980-82 paintings. 1982-87 studied at School for Film in Munich. Since then has worked as a freelance writer and film director. Founded the film production Cine Nomad together with Werner Penzel. Films include the feature film Nebel Jagen (1985), the documentary Wolfsgrub (1986) and two films in collaboration with Werner Penzel, Step Across The Border (1990) and Middle Of The Moment (1995). Followed by the experimental film Vagabonding Images (1998) together with Simone Fürbringer and the film triptych Three Windows - Hommage à Robert Lax (1999) in collaboration with Werner Penzel.

Werner Penzel: 1969 "hiebfest" (with Hartmut Lerch and Ingo Schütze) 16mm/60Min 1971 "Nellies Laden" 16mm/30Min 1972 "Heisse Luft" 35mm/14Min 1973 "Haiku" 16mm/11Min 1974 "Tamfez" 35mm/9Min "Umbanda Magic Theatre" 35mm/10Min 1975 "Brot & Zirkus" 16mm/60Min 1976 "Babaji & Dokri Maa" 16mm/20Min 1979 "Vagabunden Karawane" 16mm/90Min 1981 "Dein Kopf ist ein schlafendes Auto" (with Fritz Baumann) 16mm/100Min 1982 "Krampus" 16mm/30Min 1983 "Piraten der Stille" 16mm/50Min 1984 "Sterben zu Füssen der Brüder" 16mm/30Min 1986 "Abschied vom Hass" 16mm/72Min 1988 "Lani und die Seinen" (with Nicolas Humbert) 16mm/45Min 1987-1990 "Step across the Border" (with Nicolas Humbert) 35mm/90Min 1990-1995 "Middle of the Moment" (with Nicolas Humbert) 35mm/80Min 1997 "Null Sonne.No Point" (with Nicolas Humbert) Video/35Min 1998 "One last Glimpse" (with Doris Dörrie) Video/60Min 1999 "Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep" (with Nicolas Humbert) Video/60Min 1993-1999 "Three Windows" (with Nicolas Humbert) film triptych-videoinstallation/45Min-loop

Nicolas Humbert: 1982/83 "Krampus" (Regie:Werner Penzel) 16mm/30Min 1983/84 "Nebel Jagen" 16mm/70Min 1985/86 "Wolfsgrub" 16mm/70Min 1988/89 "Lani und die Seinen" (with Werner Penzel) 16mm/45Min 1987-1990 "Step across the Border" (with Werner Penzel) 35mm/90Min 1990-1995 "Middle of the Moment" (with Werner Penzel) 35mm/80Min 1997 "Null Sonne. No Point" (with Werner Penzel) Video/35Min 1996-1998 "Vagabonding Images" (with Simone Fürbringer) 16mm/45Min 1999 "Why should I buy a bed when all that I want is sleep" (with Werner Penzel) Video/60Min 1993-1999 "Three Windows"(with Werner Penzel) film triptych-videoinstallation/45Min-loop

cinenomad.de/filme/Step.htm

Tickets in advance £7 / £5 members

THE HORSE HOSPITAL COLONNADE BLOOMSBURY LONDON WC1N 1HX

Russell Square tube

popculture@thehorsehospital.com

www.thehorsehospital.com

The Last Temptation of Christ

This photograph was taken by Brian Griffin, styled by Roger K. Burton and Kate Forbes, and is featured in Time Out this week ( June 11-18, 2003 ) on page 20.
This is the uncensored version; Time Out's lawyers didn't like the special recipe baby thing going on in the original.

Styling : Roger K Burton and Kate Forbes @ The Horse Hospital
Costume : Contemporary Wardrobe Collection
Hair and Make Up : Lix Daxeaur @ Can
Models : Johan Birgander @ The Horse Hospital; Maloviere @ Crawfords

Keepers of Culture for 25 years

Since its inception in 1978, Contemporary Wardrobe has always been renowned for being at the forefront of cutting edge style. Born out of a passion for youth culture, and recognition of street fashion’s importance in our social history, the collection has now grown to over 15000 authentic items, designed between 1945 and the present day, and representing a multitude of diverse youth movements and cult fashions.

Although well documented for supplying youth orientated films like ‘Quadrophenia’, ‘Absolute Beginners’, ‘Sid & Nancy’ and ‘Hackers’ to name but a few, the collection’s real importance is reflected by the amount of bands – over 400 to date – that have either worn items or entire outfits from this amazing selection, in their promotional videos, stills, on stage and album covers.

From Pop royalty to Cult icons, from Rock ‘n’roll super groups to Soul divas and One hit wonders; at one time or another Contemporary Wardrobe has dressed them all, and as such we are very proud of our heritage. Consequently the wardrobe archives are bursting with ‘as worn by’ trophies that now regularly appear in museums around the world.

At the pop promo height during the early to mid eighties, stylists, designers and artists were pouring through the door on a daily basis; in search of undiscovered treasures and hungry for new ideas to feed the infant MTV beast. This fresh interest in pop cultures historic iconography was born out of kids’ frustration with stifling mainstream fashion, and owes much to the liberating punk movement. It also coincided with a crop of new style magazines that were making an appearance at the time, and was further fuelled by the likes of iD, the Face, and Blitz who were regularly featuring the latest bands and musicians, wearing our clothes. It felt as if everyone on the scene was plundering the past for inspiration, and having such a vast collection and specialist knowledge, Contemporary Wardrobe was the obvious choice. As one well-known 80s record producer once commented, ‘if there was nothing happening on the streets, you could be sure to find inspiration at Contemporary Wardrobe’.

The same is true today, judging by the growing amount of famous fashion designers (i.e. the new rock’n’roll elite) who visit us on a regular basis in order to unearth long gone looks and rework them for today’s style conscious market.

Over the past 25 years, the range and diversity of the collection’s use has been quite staggering, what one stylist would cast aside as outdated junk, another will turn it into an exotic creation and begin a whole new fashion trend.
During this time, not only have Contemporary Wardrobe been the keepers of culture, but instigators of many a new trend, through a programme of recycling and constant reinvention of the past.

Listed upon the following pages is a comprehensive alphabetical list of artistes and bands who have at one time used the collection:
* indicates bands or artistes styled by Roger K. Burton, owner of the Contemporary Wardrobe Collection

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A.
ABC *
ACCEPT *
ADAM & THE ANTS
ADVENTURES
AFTER THE FIRE
A-HA
MARC ALMOND
KELLI ALI
ALTERED IMAGES
ALICIA’S ATTIC
ALABAMA 3 *
AMAZULU
ANIMAL NIGHTLIFE
JOAN ARMATRADING
ASWAD *
ASH
THE ASSOCIATES
ASHFORD & SIMSON *
ATOMIC KITTEN

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B.
BABY BIRD *
BANANARAMA
TONI BASIL
BACKYARD BABIES
BAD GIRLS
BAY CITY ROLLERS
BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE
THE BARON KNIGHTS
THE BEATLES *
THE BEE GEES *
THE BEAT *
PATTI BEARD
VICTORIA BECKHAM
BEN FOLDS FIVE *
BELLE STARS *
BELOUIS SOME
BERGER
BELL – AMOUR *
SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR
THE BIG HEAT
BIG COUNTRY *
BIG SOUND AUTHORITY
BLACK SABBATH
PERRY BLAKE
BLANCMANGE *
RALPH LE BLANC
BLONDIE *
BLOW MONKEYS
BLUETONES
BLUE RONDO A LA TURK *
B-MOVIE
CJ BOLAND
BONO
THE BOTTOM FEEDERS
BOURGIE BOURGIE
DAVID BOWIE *
BOYZONE
THE BREEDERS
MARTIN BRIERELEY
MARTIN BRILEY
SARAH BRIGHTMAN
BROADCAST
BRONSKI BEAT
BROS
SALLY BROWN
PETE BROWN
DIANA BROWN
LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM

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C.
CAPTAIN SENSIBLE
DAVID CASSIDY
CENTRAL LINE
CHINA CRISIS
CHINA DRUM
CIMARRONS
CLASSIX NOVEAU
CLOCK
COCK ROBIN
LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS *
RICHARD COCCIANTE
PHIL COLLINS *
PAUL COOK *
THE COMMUNARDS
BILLY CONNOLLY
CORNERSHOP
ELVIS COSTELLO *
CRADLE OF FILTH
SARAH CRACKNELL
THE TONY CRANE BAND
MARSHALL CRENSHAW
CULTURE BEAT
CULTURE CLUB *
THE CURE *
T C CURTIS

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D.
ROGER DALTRY *
THE DAMNED
THE DANDYS
DAVE DAVIES *
RAY DAVIES *
DEPECHE MODE *
DEFINITION OF SOUND *
DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS *
BRUCE DICKENSON
CELINE DION
DIVINE
DON’T FLEX
THOMAS DOLBY *
DREADZONE
DRU HILL *
DUBSTAR
STEPHEN TIN TIN DUFFY
JOHN DU PRIS
DURAN DURAN
IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS
BOB DYLAN *

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E.
SHEENA EASTON *
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
DAVE EDMUNDS
808 STATE
EMF
THE ESCAPE CLUB
ESPIRITU
ETERNAL
EURYTHMICS *
KENNY EVERETT
EVERLEY BROS
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL

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F.
DONALD FAGEN
FIAT LUX
FARMERS BOY
BRIAN FERRY
FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
FINGER PRINTZ
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
FLYING PICKETS
ELLEN FOLEY
SAMANTHA FOX
FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
FREEEZ
FUN BOY THREE
FUZZ BOX

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G.
GALAXY *
GARBAGE
GAYE BIKERS ON ACID
GENESIS
BARRY GIBB *
ROBIN GIBB *
IAN GILLAN *
DAVE GILMOUR
GIRLSCHOOL *
GIRL TALK
JUNIOR GISCOMBE *
GARY GLITTER *
LOUISE GOFFIN *
DAVID GRANT
EDDIE GRANT
KITTY GRANT
SARAH GREENE

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H.
STEVE HACKETT
HAINES GANG
HAIRCUT 100 *
GERI HALLIWELL
HANSON *
GEORGE HARRISON *
PJ HARVEY
CHESNEY HAWKES
HAYSI FANTAYZEE *
HEAVEN 17 *
HELICOPTER GIRL *
DON HENLEY
NICK HEYWARD
HIM *
HIT LIST
HIT THE ROOF
THE HOOTERS
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS
THE HUDSONS
HUMAN LEAGUE *
CHRISSIE HYNDE *

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I.
BILLY IDOL
IMAGINATION
INTAFERON
IRON MAIDEN *
IT BITES

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J.
JACCO
JOE JACKSON *
MICK JAGGER *
CHAS JANKEL
J.B’S ALLSTARS
JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS
THE JETS
RICHARD JOBSON *
JO BOXERS
ELTON JOHN
HOLLY JOHNSON
HOWARD JONES
STEVE JONES *
JOYRIDER
JUDAS PRIEST *

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K.
KAJAGOOGOO
KATYDIDS
RONAN KEATING
KERBDOG
NIC KERSHAW
KILLING JOKE
PAUL KING *
KING KURT *
THE KINKS *
KISSING THE PINK
EARTHA KITT
MARK KNOPFLER *
KYORSHIRO *

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L.
ANABELLE LAMB *
LANDSCAPE
LEISURE PROCESS
LEMMY *
ANNIE LENNOX *
LEVEL 42 *
THE LEVELLERS
HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS *
LIMAHL
LINX *
LIVING IN A BOX
LIONHEART
LOOSE ENDS
LOVE CHILD ORCHESTRA
LENE LOVICH
LUB SET
LUSH
GARY LUX
ANNABELLA LWIN
JEFF LYNNE *

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M.
MADNESS
MADONNA
MANFRED MANN
MARILYN
ROBERT MARLOW
JOHN MARTYN
THIERRY MATIOUSEK *
MAXIMUM JOY
BRIAN MAY *
PAUL McCARTNEY *
KIRSTY McCOLL
CRAIG McCLAUGHLIN
MEAT LOAF
MENSWEAR
MIAMI SOUND MACHINE
GEORGE MICHAEL
MIDGET
DANNI MINOGUE
KYLIE MINOGUE
THE MISSION
THE MOBILES
MOGWAI *
MONTROSE AVENUE
THE MOODY BLUES
MORCHEEBA
MORRISSEY
MOTORHEAD *
ALISON MOYET *
MUSICAL YOUTH *
GARY MYRUK

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N.
NAVAH
JIMMY NAIL
N - FRANCE
NICOLETTE

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O.
PAUL OAKENFOLD
BILLY OCEAN
HAZEL O’CONNOR
MIKE OLDFIELD *
ONE THE JUGGLER
ROY ORBISON *
ORCHESTRAL MANOUVERES IN THE DARK
DONNY OSMOND
GILBERT O’SULLIVAN
MARK OWEN

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P.
IAN PAGE
JIMMY PAGE
PALE FOUNTAINS *
ROBERT PALMER *
PAPPARIZZI
PEARL HARBOUR
PET SHOP BOYS
TOM PETTY *
ANNE PIGALLE *
PIZZAMAN
PJ & DUNCAN
ROBERT PLANT
THE POGUES
THE POLECATS
IGGY POP *
PORTISHEAD *
POWER STATION
THE PRETENDERS *
PRETTY THINGS
PRINCE
PROPAGANDA
PSYCHEDELIC FURS
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD

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Q.
QUEEN
THE QUESTIONS

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R.
RACHEL STAMP
RAINBOW
RAW STYLUS
CHRIS REA
REFLEX
GERRY RAFFERTY *
RED 7
CLIFF RICHARD *
RICH KIDS
ROBSON AND JEROME
THE ROLLING STONES *
ROXY MUSIC
RUNAWAYS
MIKE RUTHERFORD
THE RUTTLES *

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S.
SADE *
SAINT ETIENNE
ALEXI SAYLE
S CLUB SEVEN
SCRITTI POLITTI
SELECTER
BRIAN SETZER
SHADOW TALK
SHAKESPEARS SISTER
SHAMPOO
JULES SHEARS
MC SHINE
SHOWADDYWADDY
SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK *
SIMPLE MINDS
SIMPLY RED
SINITTA
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES
SKIDS
SLADE *
THE SLINGBACKS
MEL SMITH
SOULED OUT
SOUL TO SOUL
SPACE MONKEY
SPANDAU BALLET *
SPECIAL AKA
THE SPECIALS *
SPELT LIKE THIS
THE SPICE GIRLS
SQUEEZE
RICHARD STRANGE *
STRANGELOVE
LISA STANSFIELD
THE STARGAZERS *
RINGO STARR *
808 STATE
STATUS QUO *
STEPS
JOHN STERLING
SHAKIN STEVENS *
ROD STEWART
CURTIS STIGERS
STING *
SARA STOCKBRIDGE
STRANGELOVE
STRANGLERS *
STRAW
STRAY CATS
THE STYLE COUNCIL
SWING OUT SISTER
THE SYNDICATE

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T.
TANITA TIKARAM
TELEPHONE *
TELESTAR
JIMI TENOR *
THESE ANIMAL MEN
THIRD WORLD
LINDA THOMPSON
THOMPSON TWINS
THE THOUGHT
THUNDERPUSSY
TIGER
PETE TOWNSEND *
T’PAU
TRANSVISION VAMP
THE TRAVELLING WILBURYS *
TRICKY
EDDIE TUDOR POLE *

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U.
UB40 *
TRACY ULLMAN *
ULTRA
ULTRAVOX *
THE UNDERTONES
URIAH HEEP *
U2

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V.
GINO VANELLI *
VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE *

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W.
WAH!
SCOTT WALKER
WANG CHUNG *
WARM JETS
WAX
PAUL WELLER
WET WET WET
WHAM
WHITE TORCH
WILDHEARTS
WILLY & THE POOR BOYS
KIM WILDE
ROBBIE WILLIAMS
MARI WILSON *
WORKING WEEK *
WYCLEF JEAN *
BILL WYMAN *

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X.
XTC

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Y.
YAH YAH
PAULA YATES
YAZZ
YAZOO
YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA *
YES LETS
PAUL YOUNG *
WILL YOUNG

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Z.
ZELDA
ZUCCHERRO *
ZUZU SHARKS

mar

Hip Survival Bulletin #28 - June 2003

Gentle Readers,

A full elucidation of the next month's events after last week's cut out and keep guide.

MONDAY JUNE 2ND – BOOK LAUNCH : 6.30pm

A Fête Worse Than Death – A Journey through an English summer by Iain Aitch

Published by Headline Review

In the company of the author

A Fête Worse Than Death is a comical trip around England where Iain meets shin-kickers, crop circle makers, stag parties and a dog-bitten woman who asks him to marry her at Stonehenge, witnesses the sailing of a Cornish pasty, plays cricket with trainspotters, gets all vitriolic about the horrors of Stratford Upon Avon. He also meets the very English Luftwaffe, and attends more village fêtes than it is healthy for one man to do.

Come for the guess-the-weight-of-the-cake competition and stay for the human fruit machine. There will also be a short reading by Iain as well as bunting, books and music.

About the author : Born in Margate, Kent , Iain is the inventor of World Phone in Sick Day, writes for a host of newspapers and magazines and has never slept with Tracey Emin.

http://www.iainaitch.com

THURSDAY JUNE 5TH –BOOK LAUNCH - 6.30pm

The Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay

Transworld Publishers

In the company of the author

‘I have never seen the logic of madness, of a particular delusion, presented so clearly and convincingly.‘ Oliver Sacks

The Air Loom Gang tells James Tilly Matthews’ remarkable true story. Incarcerated in the world’s most notorious madhouse - the Bethlem Royal Hospital – Bedlam; Matthews’ case became celebrated as the most complex and bizarre ever recorded. He remains one of the most famous cases in psychiatric history - the first man to believe that his mind was being controlled by an ‘influencing machine’ - The Air Loom – which works by animal magnetism and sends invisible rays to control the minds of its victims - politicians and generals bent on plunging France and England into war.

But the truth of his case was even stranger than his doctors realized: many of the incredible conspiracies in which he claimed to have been involved were entirely real.

About the author : Mike Jay is the author of The Air Loom Gang, Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, Blue Tide: The Search for Soma and Artificial Paradises: A Drugs Reader and editor of 1900: A Fin-de-Siècle Reader.

FRIDAY JUNE 6TH –BOOK LAUNCH - 6.30pm

Victims by Travis Jeppesen
Published by Akashic Press

In the company of the author

"Victims may by the most exciting first novel I've read in a decade or more. This is a brilliant, haunting, and, strangest of all, very funny novel."
-- Dennis Cooper, author of Frisk

Their struggles to reconcile their faith in Jones's teachings with the emotional ups and downs of their relationships, jobs, and interactions with the natural world form the subject of this exquisitely written and highly original novel.

Based on extensive research into the rhetoric of religious cults, 23 year old Travis Jeppesen’s first novel Victims centres around the final days of a religious cult called The Overcomers. Like the infamous Heaven's Gate cult whose mass suicide gained world media attention in the 1990s, they are a small group of lost souls guided by the teachings of a charismatic leader, Martin Jones. The Overcomers go about their lives preparing for the cosmic event that will signal the end of their time on earth.

Jeppesen has written a novel with a philosophical bravura rarely seen in the work of contemporary American writers. This is the first book published upon Dennis Cooper’s Little House On The Bowery imprint.

About the author : Travis Jeppesen was born in Ft. Lauderdale in 1979. His fiction and cultural criticism have appeared in Book Forum, 3am Magazine, The Stranger, and other publications, and he is a contributing editor to Pavement Magazine. Victims is his first novel. Having resided in Charlotte, Seattle, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin, Jeppesen currently resides in an undisclosed Eastern European country.

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MONDAY JUNE 9TH - THE LOST FILM FESTIVAL 7.30pm

West Philadelphia's Lost Film Festival touring programme features scathing and hilarious social commentary in the form of narrative shorts, documented pranks, and hot Riot Porn (amateur footage from protests around the world.)

What the hell is Lost Film Festival?

1. A big annual events in Philly (next one is April 10-13, 2003)
2. a traveling showcase of truly independent (read: anti-corporate) film
3. Satellite events during larger film festivals like Sundance, Sxsw, CMJ
4. A curator for a series of VHS/DVD's released by Bloodlink Motion Pictures.

TOUR LINEUP 2003

(You may, or may not see all the films in one evening. They project like a DJ spins records...)

Anarchy Carpet (Siketrike) / Anarchy in LA (Jino Choi) / Eye of the Storm (Raphael Lyon) / GET ON THE SIDEWALK!...and if you don't like it, move to Iraq. (nyc.indymedia.org) 7 min / Gigi from 9 to 5 (Joanne Nucho) 8 min / GNN S-11 (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse (Guerrilla News Network) 12 min / G-Sprout (Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky) 12 min / The Manipulators (Andrew Jeffrey Wright / Clare Rojas) 2 min / Hatching Beauty (Amy Hicks) 10 min / Lego Trilogy (Rob Weychert) 12 min / Maryland 355 (Ben Scholle) 6 min / Nine News (Andre Hyland) 8 min / Punk Rock Archives: Social Distortion (CTV) 20 min doc / State Of The Union (Bryan Boyce) 2 min / Terror, Iraq, Weapons (Mike Nourse) 3 min / Unhappy Meal (John R / Greg R) 6 min

Anarchy Carpet | (Siketrike)
A carpet roams the streets of Baltimore convincing the kids that a life of egalitarian cooperation would be more fun than living under consumer capitalism.

Anarchy in LA | (Jino Choi)
A primer on the most misunderstood philosophy of modern history, this piece dispels the common myths and misconceptions about anarchism while pointing out its' relevance and influence in the current protest movement. Cameo appearance by the infamous Spock Bloc.

Eye of the Storm | (Raphael Lyon)
A powerful roughcut of the in-progress documentary. The film covers the rise of argentina.indymedia.org as the popular source of news in that country.

"GET ON THE SIDEWALK!... and if you don't like it, move to Iraq." (nyc.indymedia.org) 7 min
On February 15, 2003 an estimated 500,000 people took to the streets of New York to protest George W. Bush's war against Iraq. Regardless of the fact that New York City was touched directly by the tragedy of September 11, officials would not issue a permit for a march. The day of the rally, the city gave into pressure from demonstration organizers, and reluctantly allowed people to rally up the street from the United Nations HQ. As thousands of people, young and old braved the bitter cold, police assaulted the peaceful crowds, blocked streets and walkways thus preventing them from joining the rally. A carnival of democratic and artistic expression was greeted by the heavy-handed tactics of law enforcement. Police used pepper spray and mace, trampled individuals with horses, and clubbed people in the head. Protestors were subject to mass arrests though not read their rights. Access to medicine or bathroom facilities were denied as people sat in plastic handcuffs on police buses until the next day. Thousands of people with video cameras documented the abuses. The evening news falsely reported that the day had passed without incident, but the powers that be were in for a wake up call. Working overtime at the New York City Independent Media Center, amateur journalists compiled hours of video footage shot on the streets of police violence. A couple of days later a surprise press conference was held in order to expose to the world what had happened that day. On the web the video was made available and spread virally. This is the actual shocking footage of extreme police brutality on a day when people attempted to march for peace.

Gigi from 9 to 5 | (Joanne Nucho) 8 min
A Post Modern & Situationist inspired musical, "Gigi (from 9 to 5)" is a story about the perils of the endless cycle of work and consumption. Gigi sings and dances her way through her day, trying to keep up with the show. Features Gina Young and members of Black Dice.

GNN [ S-11 (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse ] | (Guerrilla News Network) 12 min
Culled from over 20 hours of television footage recorded over a one month period and across 13 networks, S-11 Redux is a sound-bite blitzkrieg that challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. Be warned - this video moves quickly and will require at least two viewings to digest its full impact. You may never be able to look at the coverage of S-11 and its post-impact coverage the same way, ever again. www.gnn.tv

G-Sprout | (Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky) 12 min
A cyberspace encounter turns into a trans-polysexual-vegan-docu-porno featuring urban veggie lovers speaking out on dating, intimacy, and sex in a meat-centred culture. G-Sprout neatly rolls the themes of sex and death into one. Directors Mirha-Soleil Ross and Mark Karbusicky explore the topic of vegans and vegetarians who only date their own kind. The first five minutes of the doc seem like an elaborate joke, as two online vegans with the handles Tofutits and Soyboy meet in a chat room. Over graphic footage of them having sex, the directors superimpose interviews with vegans and vegetarians explaining their preferences. What the veggies have to say fulfills the stereotype of vegans as crunchy, militant types who waffle on about "sensing and feeling desire without words" and "creating a type of magic" with a non-meat-eating partner. (Meat-eaters in the audience may squirm to learn that they apparently have six pounds of dead animal festering in their gut.) However, the tone shifts midway through the film, as the background images change from oral sex to scenes from slaughterhouses. These kinds of images aren't new, but the directors manage to invest them with fresh significance. G-SPrOuT's jokey tone gives way to a meaningful discourse of the level of commitment -- both political and personal it takes to be an animal rights activist.

The Manipulators | (Andrew Jeffrey Wright / Clare Rojas) 2 min
Andrew Jeffrey Wright & Clare Rojas (Space 1026) use their animation superpowers to hijack a fashion magazine and manipulate the images used to manipulate us.

Hatching Beauty | (Amy Hicks) 10 min
Hatching Beauty is a humorous and satirical experimental collage that intertwines live action, stop-motion, and found footage to emphasize our ideas about consumerism, working for a living, genetic engineering, and the amount of control (or lack thereof) we have over our lives. Hatching Beauty is a warped view of what tomorrow might be like and the decisions we may have to face as we cease to be mere consumers, but become consumable commodities ourselves.

Lego Trilogy | (Rob Weychert) 12 min
Three Lego tales told by Bredstik Comedy Troupe's Rob Weychert:
(SIEGE ON THE CORPORATE IDENTITY PLANT):
Militants infiltrate a businessman factory producing homogenized workers, and leave a bomb behind.
(HEAT PART 2): New Jersey is threatened with accelerated global warming. The government's solution= Blow up the sun.
(TWELVE BUCKS): A scathing examination: what are you really doing for 12 bucks an hour?

Maryland 355 | (Ben Scholle) 6 min
A self critical and hilarious activist produced narrative in which Anarchists searching for a meaningful approach to improving the social good, decide to adopt a highway. Featuring Eric Hammar (Frail), author Carissa Vandenberk Clark & Scott Beibin (lost film fest)

Nine News | (Andre Hyland) 8 min
Graphics running across the bottom of the screen are altered ("President Bush declares all foreigners evil...") and interview dialogue cut, edited and reshuffled- sometimes in repetitive hip hop fashion- to create an entirely fictional, but seemingly real, newscast which ultimately told a far more compelling truth than the actual broadcasts. In Nine, Cincinnati Police Academy graduates speak of their excitement in going out to "serve the public." These interviews are interspersed with film clips of Cincinnati police officers violently beating citizens in the streets. Hyland cuts back to the newscaster who chuckles and proclaims, "we've certainly seen that before." And while such liberties are obviously taken out of context, one can't help but think of William Blake's assertion that he, "lied to tell a larger truth."

Punk Rock Archives: Social Distortion | (CTV) 20 min doc
CNN can only aspire to be as sensationalistic as this piece. In 1988 a Canadian program of "investigative journalism" aired "Social Distortion", a Reefer Madness-style expose that scrutinized the 'threatening lifestyles' of punk rockers. With a straight face, they claim that North American cities are being overtaken by cults of satanic punk street gangs. They attempt to prove their point by interviewing the founder of "Back in Control" (a right wing religious organization), with counterpoints from a 16-year-old suburban kid with a mohawk named "Razor". There's a laugh every five seconds, as the startling "journalistic" conclusions sound more like the clueless punchlines they are.

State Of The Union | (Bryan Boyce) 2 min In this clever animation, Brian Boyce combines C-SPAN footage of George W. Bush with clips from The Teletubbies while describing US foreign policy through strong metaphor.

Terror, Iraq, Weapons | (Mike Nourse) 3 min
In the most hilarious way, Mike Nourse deconstructs a broadcast speech by George W. Bush illustrating how simple word repetition is used as propaganda. Watch as the American President alerts the world to the threat of Islams' "Nuclear Holy Warriors" and uses the word "Iraq" as 3 parts of speech in the same sentence. Think Jimmy Stewart meets Josef Goebbels.

Unhappy Meal | (John R / Greg R) 6 min
"Unhappy Meal", shot on digital video and film is a multi-media assault that takes a critical and disturbing look at the McDonald's and consumer culture. R room's visual and graphical style come together in one of their wildest videos yet, featuring their very own Evil Ronald. Unhappy Meal is a hard hitting and humorous visual metaphor Intertwined with the twisted breakbeats of Patootihed. It explores all evils of the fastfood giant which opens 2000 franchises a year. This is an average of one every five minutes. Your street may be next.

For further info see
www.lostfilmfest.org

Tickets in advance £5 members / guest tickets £7

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THURSDAY JUNE 12TH

BOOK LAUNCH - 6.30pm

I’M WITH THE BAND: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres

Helter Skelter Publishing

In the company of the author

Long overdue return to print for the ultimate story of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll - The definitive groupie memoir from the ultimate groupie.

Frank and engaging memoir of affairs with Keith Moon, Noel Redding and Jim Morrison, travels with Led Zeppelin as Jimmy Page’s girlfriend, and friendships with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons – with whom she was particularly smitten, - and Frank Zappa.

Follow Miss Pamela’s adventures as she loses her virginity to a member of Steppenwolf, hangs out with Cynthia Plastercaster, enjoys close encounters with many members of the era’s rock aristocracy, founds the Zappa-esque all-girl group the G.T.O.s, tours with Led Zeppelin - Jimmy Page had "dark chilling powers" and kept whips in his suitcase – babysits Zappa’s kids, lives with Don Johnson and somehow survives.

"Miss Pamela, the most beautiful and famous of the groupies. Her memoir of her life with rock stars is funny, bittersweet, and tender-hearted."
Stephen Davis, author of Hammer of the Gods

FRIDAY JUNE 13TH

JACK SARGEANT MONDO NIGHT 7.30

Jack Sargean & kinoKULTURE Presents...
for one night only
MONDO MOVIES DOUBLE BILL
Mondo Balordo and Go! Go! Go! World

before there was accessible foreign travel....
before there were documentaries on television....
before there was political correctness....
before there was legal porno....
there was MONDO.

MONDO MOVIES: travelogues into the unknown neither regions of the world. Searching for the inscrutable essence of humanity from strippers in Las Vegas to head hunters in Papua, from Catholics in Italy to snake charmers in India.... mondo movies glorified in a world that was tragic, bizarre, and funny.

MONDO started with the legendary Mondo Cane (1962). But this stream-of-consciousness free-flowing juxtaposition of a world gone to the dogs, narrated in a cynical, fleetingly misanthropic, tone, was only the beginning... the film spawned an entire genre...

MONDO: an entire genre of film based on questionable anthropology and using a mixture of footage depicting all kinds of primitive peoples - from Amazonian natives to English wife swappers, from African tribal dancers to American rock and rollers. The world was crazed and mondo was there to document every primal mating ritual, every manner of animal cruelty, and every decadence of modern art and consumer culture.

Mondo Balordo (1964) - narrated by Boris Karloff, this entry to the genre is notable for its midget rock and rollers, beauty contests, transexuals, swingers, carney mayhem, female wrasslin', and animal cruelty...as well as some amazing hair dying scenes!

and

Go! Go! Go! World (1964) - one of the last original mondo movies - before the genre started specialising on specific themes of psychoanalysis, sex, magic, and teenagers. This travelogue of mayhem includes mud wrasslin' ladies, bikinis, performance art, strippers, tramps, cars, and animal cruelty, all narrated with the most gloriously misanthropic voice over ever.

Tickets in advance £5 members / guest tickets £7

Friday 20th June 7.30pm

13 – The Symposium Of Exotic Reason

featuring

andy irritant ( pisstank ), of irritant records – playing electroacoustics, electronic wierdness, dirty electro, and whorecore.
Richard M - playing Easy 50's & 60's pop, Outlaw country, field recordings
and some Rod McEwan.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 25TH 7.30pm

CRAIG BALDWIN PRESENTS PRANKIN' THE WAR PIG

FILM SCREENING
16mm culture jam and reappropriation night with San Francisco’s Other Cinema's Craig Baldwin and twisted country live film narrative from Twang, featuring Geoff Johnston, Super:Collider's Jamie Lidell and Mike Denny.

Screening :

Tribulation 99 ( 48 minutes\16mm\1991 )

and

"Press Play to Agitate: Pirates, Parodists, and the Prank-Documentary"

35 minutes of video provocations that deal with "creative resistance" to the commodity and the War, featuring agitdocs, elaborate pranks and culture-jams from rTMark, Whispered Media and many, many more!!

Tribulation 99

Director/Screenplay/Editor: Craig Baldwin
Photography: Bill Daniel
Sound: Craig Baldwin
Voices: Sean Kilkoyne

Unrelentingly lurid and equally hilarious, Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America might be an X-ray of a rabid slacker's seething brain. This 48-minute document of underground agitprop... is both a skewed history of United States intervention in Latin America and a satire of conspiracy thinking--as well as an impressive demonstration of the sort of connect-the-dots logic that makes such political or world views possible.

With a sci-fi plot suggesting that current unrest can be blamed on space aliens who live under U.S. atomic test sites, the film illustrates its lurid comic drama with images culled from everyting from newsreels to Mexican horror flicks. This nutty little item suggests that conspiracy trhinking is a Frankenstein monster which inevitably destroys its creator (First you have the conspiracy theory, and then the conspiracy theory has you). The film may induce in some an aggravated form of 'medialepsy', brought on by TV journalism's flashing images -- or is it the cadences in Mary Hart's voice.

Director Baldwin intends "to actually hypnotize the audience and set up this psychotronic state, I wanted to have a film that not only talked about mass hypnosis but did hypnotize you" (Premiere). Your eyelids get heavy, you quack like a duck, you remember nothing of what you have done. (So what else is new?)

Tickets in advance £5 members / guest tickets £7

COMING SOON!!! August 2nd / 3rd
The films of TRENT HARRIS!!!